William D Sunderlin
Biographic Data
| ID | 1571869 |
|---|---|
| NAME | William D Sunderlin |
| GIVEN NAMES | William D |
| FAMILY NAME | Sunderlin |
| SIGNATURE | SUNDERLIN W D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Center for International Forestry Research |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 29 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 563 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 29 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 11 |
Can Redd+ succeed? Occurrence and influence of various combinations of interventions in subnational initiatives
Influence of land tenure interventions on human well-being and environmental outcomes
Incorporating Land Tenure Security into Conservation
Insecure land tenure plagues many developing and tropical regions, often where conservation concerns are highest. Conservation organizations have long focused on protected areas as tenure interventions, but are now thinking more comprehensively about whether and how to incorporate other land tenure strategies into their work, and how to more soundly ground such interventions on evidence of both conservation and human benefits. Through a review of…
What is Redd+ achieving on the ground
REDD+ bundles of interventions are highly diverse. • There is insufficient use of counterfactuals to attribute outcomes to REDD+. • Relatively few studies focus on the carbon outcomes of REDD+. • Non-carbon effects are small or insignificant, but depend on the intervention mix. • There is a need to boost local participation in REDD+ to help achieve positive outcomes. The Paris Climate Agreement recognizes the importance of the mechanism to Reduce…
Creating an appropriate tenure foundation for Redd: The record to date and prospects for the future
Attention to tenure is a fundamental step in preparation for REDD+ implementation. Unclear and conflicting tenure has been the main challenge faced by the proponents of subnational REDD+ initiatives, and accordingly, they have expended much effort to remedy the problem. This article assesses how well REDD+ has performed in laying an appropriate tenure foundation. Field research was carried out in two phases (2010–2012 and 2013–2014) in five count…
Wealth and the distribution of benefits from tropical forests: Implications for Redd
Interventions to strengthen forest conservation in tropical biomes face multiple challenges. Insecure land tenure and unequal benefit sharing within forest user groups are two of the most important. Using original household-level survey data from 130 villages in six countries, we assess how current wealth inequality relates to tenure security and benefit flows from forest use. We find that villages with higher wealth inequality report lower tenur…
Comparing methods for assessing the effectiveness of subnational Redd+ initiatives
The central role of forests in climate change mitigation, as recognized in the Paris agreement, makes it increasingly important to develop and test methods for monitoring and evaluating the carbon effectiveness of REDD+. Over the last decade, hundreds of subnational REDD+ initiatives have emerged, presenting an opportunity to pilot and compare different approaches to quantifying impacts on carbon emissions. This study (1) develops a Before-After-…
Building the evidence base for Redd: Study design and methods for evaluating the impacts of conservation interventions on local well-being
Balancing carrots and sticks in Redd: Implications for Social Safeguards
Duchelle, A. E., C. de Sassi, P. Jagger, M. Cromberg, A. M. Larson, W. D. Sunderlin, S. S. Atmadja, I. A. P. Resosudarmo, and C. D. Pratama. 2017. Balancing carrots and sticks in REDD+: implications for social safeguards. Ecology and Society 22(3):2. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-09334-220302
Tenure and Forest Income: Observations from a Global Study on Forests and Poverty
We explore the relationship between tenure and forest income in 271 villages throughout the tropics. We find that state-owned forests generate more forest income than private and community-owned forests both per household and per hectare. We explore whether forest income varies according to the extent of rule enforcement, and congruence (i.e., overlap of user rights between owners and users). We find negative associations between enforcement and …
Redd+ readiness: Early insights on monitoring, reporting and verification systems of project developers
A functional measuring, monitoring, reporting and verification (MRV) system is essential to assess the additionality and impact on forest carbon in REDD+ (reducing emissions from deforestation and degradation) projects. This study assesses the MRV capacity and readiness of project developers at 20 REDD+ projects in Brazil, Peru, Cameroon, Tanzania, Indonesia and Vietnam, using a questionnaire survey and field visits. Nineteen performance criteria…
Linking Forest Tenure Reform, Environmental Compliance, and Incentives: Lessons from Redd+ Initiatives in the Brazilian Amazon
How are Redd+ Proponents Addressing Tenure Problems? Evidence from Brazil, Cameroon, Tanzania, Indonesia, and Vietnam
Land tenure and Redd: The good, the bad and the ugly
Who Should Benefit from Redd+? Rationales and Realities
Luttrell, C., L. Loft, M. F. Gebara, D. Kweka, M. Brockhaus, A. Angelsen, and W. D. Sunderlin. 2013. Who should benefit from REDD+? Rationales and realities. Ecology and Society 18(4): 52. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-05834-180452
Some lessons learned from the first generation of Redd+ activities
Redd-plus, forest people's rights and nested climate governance
Why Forests Are Important for Global Poverty Alleviation: A Spatial Explanation
Sunderlin, W. D., S. Dewi, A. Puntodewo, D. Müller, A. Angelsen, and M. Epprecht. 2008. Why forests are important for global poverty alleviation: a spatial explanation. Ecology and Society 13(2): 24. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-02590-130224
Poverty alleviation through community forestry in Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam: An assessment of the potential
Livelihoods, forests, and conservation in developing countries: An Overview
Economic Crisis and Forest Cover Change in Cameroon: The Roles of Migration, Crop Diversification, and Gender Division of Labor
Economic Crisis, Small Farmer Well-Being, and Forest Cover Change in Indonesia
Impact of Macroeconomic Change on Deforestation in South Cameroon: Integration of Household Survey and Remotely-Sensed Data
Between Danger and Opportunity: Indonesia and Forests in an Era of Economic Crisis and Political Change
Policies aiming to improve the conservation and management of tropical forests are often based on the assumption of political and economic stability. Yet some of the most important changes in conditions affecting tropical forests can occur when the political and economic climate changes in an abrupt, unpredicted, and largely uncontrolled manner. This fact is illustrated through preliminary, largely media based documentation of changes underway in…
Fishers' Organizations and Modes of Co-Management: The Case of San Miguel Bay, Philippines
Recent writings have claimed that fisheries management can be improved through joint regulation by government bodies and resource users, and through partial devolution of management authority from government to fishers' organizations. The Philippines appears to provide an optimal institutional setting for the emergence of fisheries co-management. The government has enacted legislation to assist fishers' organizations in taking on a larger managem…
Livelihoods, forests, and conservation in developing countries: An Overview
Land tenure and Redd: The good, the bad and the ugly
How are Redd+ Proponents Addressing Tenure Problems? Evidence from Brazil, Cameroon, Tanzania, Indonesia, and Vietnam
Redd-plus, forest people's rights and nested climate governance
Linking Forest Tenure Reform, Environmental Compliance, and Incentives: Lessons from Redd+ Initiatives in the Brazilian Amazon
Impact of Macroeconomic Change on Deforestation in South Cameroon: Integration of Household Survey and Remotely-Sensed Data
Tenure and Forest Income: Observations from a Global Study on Forests and Poverty
We explore the relationship between tenure and forest income in 271 villages throughout the tropics. We find that state-owned forests generate more forest income than private and community-owned forests both per household and per hectare. We explore whether forest income varies according to the extent of rule enforcement, and congruence (i.e., overlap of user rights between owners and users). We find negative associations between enforcement and …
Building the evidence base for Redd: Study design and methods for evaluating the impacts of conservation interventions on local well-being
What is Redd+ achieving on the ground
REDD+ bundles of interventions are highly diverse. • There is insufficient use of counterfactuals to attribute outcomes to REDD+. • Relatively few studies focus on the carbon outcomes of REDD+. • Non-carbon effects are small or insignificant, but depend on the intervention mix. • There is a need to boost local participation in REDD+ to help achieve positive outcomes. The Paris Climate Agreement recognizes the importance of the mechanism to Reduce…
Creating an appropriate tenure foundation for Redd: The record to date and prospects for the future
Attention to tenure is a fundamental step in preparation for REDD+ implementation. Unclear and conflicting tenure has been the main challenge faced by the proponents of subnational REDD+ initiatives, and accordingly, they have expended much effort to remedy the problem. This article assesses how well REDD+ has performed in laying an appropriate tenure foundation. Field research was carried out in two phases (2010–2012 and 2013–2014) in five count…
Poverty alleviation through community forestry in Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam: An assessment of the potential
Some lessons learned from the first generation of Redd+ activities
Influence of land tenure interventions on human well-being and environmental outcomes
Economic Crisis, Small Farmer Well-Being, and Forest Cover Change in Indonesia
Who Should Benefit from Redd+? Rationales and Realities
Luttrell, C., L. Loft, M. F. Gebara, D. Kweka, M. Brockhaus, A. Angelsen, and W. D. Sunderlin. 2013. Who should benefit from REDD+? Rationales and realities. Ecology and Society 18(4): 52. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-05834-180452
Rich Forests, Poor People: Resource Control and Resistance in Java
Why Forests Are Important for Global Poverty Alleviation: A Spatial Explanation
Sunderlin, W. D., S. Dewi, A. Puntodewo, D. Müller, A. Angelsen, and M. Epprecht. 2008. Why forests are important for global poverty alleviation: a spatial explanation. Ecology and Society 13(2): 24. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-02590-130224
Between Danger and Opportunity: Indonesia and Forests in an Era of Economic Crisis and Political Change
Policies aiming to improve the conservation and management of tropical forests are often based on the assumption of political and economic stability. Yet some of the most important changes in conditions affecting tropical forests can occur when the political and economic climate changes in an abrupt, unpredicted, and largely uncontrolled manner. This fact is illustrated through preliminary, largely media based documentation of changes underway in…
Wealth and the distribution of benefits from tropical forests: Implications for Redd
Interventions to strengthen forest conservation in tropical biomes face multiple challenges. Insecure land tenure and unequal benefit sharing within forest user groups are two of the most important. Using original household-level survey data from 130 villages in six countries, we assess how current wealth inequality relates to tenure security and benefit flows from forest use. We find that villages with higher wealth inequality report lower tenur…
Balancing carrots and sticks in Redd: Implications for Social Safeguards
Duchelle, A. E., C. de Sassi, P. Jagger, M. Cromberg, A. M. Larson, W. D. Sunderlin, S. S. Atmadja, I. A. P. Resosudarmo, and C. D. Pratama. 2017. Balancing carrots and sticks in REDD+: implications for social safeguards. Ecology and Society 22(3):2. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-09334-220302
Managerialism and the conceptual limits of sustainable development
This article examines the concept of sustainable development in terms of the three classical sociological paradigms—that is, the class, managerial, and pluralist traditions. In so doing, it is discovered that the concept of sustainable development is firmly rooted in the managerial tradition, and that the concept is often opposed by writers in the class and pluralist traditions. This implies that the power and scope of the concept, although havin…
Economic Crisis and Forest Cover Change in Cameroon: The Roles of Migration, Crop Diversification, and Gender Division of Labor
Global environmental change, sociology, and paradigm isolation
Rich Forests, Poor People: Resource Control and Resistance in Java
Global environmental change, sociology, and paradigm isolation
Managerialism and the conceptual limits of sustainable development
This article examines the concept of sustainable development in terms of the three classical sociological paradigms—that is, the class, managerial, and pluralist traditions. In so doing, it is discovered that the concept of sustainable development is firmly rooted in the managerial tradition, and that the concept is often opposed by writers in the class and pluralist traditions. This implies that the power and scope of the concept, although havin…
Fishers' Organizations and Modes of Co-Management: The Case of San Miguel Bay, Philippines
Recent writings have claimed that fisheries management can be improved through joint regulation by government bodies and resource users, and through partial devolution of management authority from government to fishers' organizations. The Philippines appears to provide an optimal institutional setting for the emergence of fisheries co-management. The government has enacted legislation to assist fishers' organizations in taking on a larger managem…
Deforestation, livelihoods, and the preconditions for sustainable management in Olancho, Honduras
Between Danger and Opportunity: Indonesia and Forests in an Era of Economic Crisis and Political Change
Policies aiming to improve the conservation and management of tropical forests are often based on the assumption of political and economic stability. Yet some of the most important changes in conditions affecting tropical forests can occur when the political and economic climate changes in an abrupt, unpredicted, and largely uncontrolled manner. This fact is illustrated through preliminary, largely media based documentation of changes underway in…
Impact of Macroeconomic Change on Deforestation in South Cameroon: Integration of Household Survey and Remotely-Sensed Data
Economic Crisis, Small Farmer Well-Being, and Forest Cover Change in Indonesia
Economic Crisis and Forest Cover Change in Cameroon: The Roles of Migration, Crop Diversification, and Gender Division of Labor
Poverty alleviation through community forestry in Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam: An assessment of the potential
Livelihoods, forests, and conservation in developing countries: An Overview
Why Forests Are Important for Global Poverty Alleviation: A Spatial Explanation
Sunderlin, W. D., S. Dewi, A. Puntodewo, D. Müller, A. Angelsen, and M. Epprecht. 2008. Why forests are important for global poverty alleviation: a spatial explanation. Ecology and Society 13(2): 24. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-02590-130224
Redd-plus, forest people's rights and nested climate governance
Some lessons learned from the first generation of Redd+ activities
Redd+ readiness: Early insights on monitoring, reporting and verification systems of project developers
A functional measuring, monitoring, reporting and verification (MRV) system is essential to assess the additionality and impact on forest carbon in REDD+ (reducing emissions from deforestation and degradation) projects. This study assesses the MRV capacity and readiness of project developers at 20 REDD+ projects in Brazil, Peru, Cameroon, Tanzania, Indonesia and Vietnam, using a questionnaire survey and field visits. Nineteen performance criteria…
Linking Forest Tenure Reform, Environmental Compliance, and Incentives: Lessons from Redd+ Initiatives in the Brazilian Amazon
How are Redd+ Proponents Addressing Tenure Problems? Evidence from Brazil, Cameroon, Tanzania, Indonesia, and Vietnam
Land tenure and Redd: The good, the bad and the ugly
Who Should Benefit from Redd+? Rationales and Realities
Luttrell, C., L. Loft, M. F. Gebara, D. Kweka, M. Brockhaus, A. Angelsen, and W. D. Sunderlin. 2013. Who should benefit from REDD+? Rationales and realities. Ecology and Society 18(4): 52. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-05834-180452
Tenure and Forest Income: Observations from a Global Study on Forests and Poverty
We explore the relationship between tenure and forest income in 271 villages throughout the tropics. We find that state-owned forests generate more forest income than private and community-owned forests both per household and per hectare. We explore whether forest income varies according to the extent of rule enforcement, and congruence (i.e., overlap of user rights between owners and users). We find negative associations between enforcement and …
Comparing methods for assessing the effectiveness of subnational Redd+ initiatives
The central role of forests in climate change mitigation, as recognized in the Paris agreement, makes it increasingly important to develop and test methods for monitoring and evaluating the carbon effectiveness of REDD+. Over the last decade, hundreds of subnational REDD+ initiatives have emerged, presenting an opportunity to pilot and compare different approaches to quantifying impacts on carbon emissions. This study (1) develops a Before-After-…
Building the evidence base for Redd: Study design and methods for evaluating the impacts of conservation interventions on local well-being
Balancing carrots and sticks in Redd: Implications for Social Safeguards
Duchelle, A. E., C. de Sassi, P. Jagger, M. Cromberg, A. M. Larson, W. D. Sunderlin, S. S. Atmadja, I. A. P. Resosudarmo, and C. D. Pratama. 2017. Balancing carrots and sticks in REDD+: implications for social safeguards. Ecology and Society 22(3):2. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-09334-220302
Incorporating Land Tenure Security into Conservation
Insecure land tenure plagues many developing and tropical regions, often where conservation concerns are highest. Conservation organizations have long focused on protected areas as tenure interventions, but are now thinking more comprehensively about whether and how to incorporate other land tenure strategies into their work, and how to more soundly ground such interventions on evidence of both conservation and human benefits. Through a review of…
What is Redd+ achieving on the ground
REDD+ bundles of interventions are highly diverse. • There is insufficient use of counterfactuals to attribute outcomes to REDD+. • Relatively few studies focus on the carbon outcomes of REDD+. • Non-carbon effects are small or insignificant, but depend on the intervention mix. • There is a need to boost local participation in REDD+ to help achieve positive outcomes. The Paris Climate Agreement recognizes the importance of the mechanism to Reduce…
Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (24 works) · Economics (21 works) · Business (19 works) · Geography (19 works) · Political science (18 works) · Ecology (13 works) · Environmental resource management (13 works) · Agriculture (11 works) · Forest Management and Policy (10 works) · Environmental planning (9 works)